Mobile man dies after being pulled from burning home on Dauphin Island Parkway

MOBILE, Ala. -- The 88-year-old Mobile man who was pulled from his burning home this morning has died from his injuries, according to Mobile Fire-Rescue spokesman Steve Huffman.

The man, who lived alone, was found by firefighters in the hallway of his one story home on Dauphin Island Parkway, a few blocks south of Government Street, according to Mobile Fire-Rescue spokesman Steve Huffman.

"All indications are from the way he was found that he collapsed while trying to escape," Huffman said.

Witnesses on the scene of the midmorning fire said rescuers attempted to revive the man for several minutes before an ambulance arrived. He was still unconscious when they took him.

Huffman said the man, who he declined to identify, was taken to Mobile Infirmary but later died. The cause of the conflagration was still under investigation, he said, but appears to have started in a back bedroom and spread from there.